Valasca

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1. New ER requesting the reality check

   Valasca posted a topic in Emergency

   i am a new rn and will begin my er residency next week (in just a couple dayd. also i have very limited er exp.). i have read through the stickys. my residency is 14 wks long with opportunities to extende per diem. anyway everything seems great on...

2. Is it okay to sell my micro book?

   Valasca replied to mom35's topic in General Students

   You will not need your micro book in nursing school I promise!!!!!!! You are going to have sooooooo many books during nursing school that if they all fell on you at once they would probably kill you LOL!!! Besides, in nursing school they build on w...

3. Correlation Between High GPA & NCLEX Pass Rate/Nursing Care?

   Valasca replied to DoGoodThenGo's topic in General Students

   I really don't know if there have been studies done on GPA and NCLEX pass rates....I would doubt it. I think competition is what is driving the higher admission GPA's. When nursing schools are getting in excess of 150 applications for 50 or so slot...

4. schools testing students on outside resources

   Valasca replied to nurseobrien's topic in General Students

   I suppose they could if they are related to what you have been expected to learn. I have had a couple of instructors do this on occasion (nothing that would make or break you on a quiz/test). Their rational was that we had the tools (based on our c...

5. Silly question--what to wear for class

   Valasca replied to knittingmonster's topic in General Students

   For lecture classes and lab we wear whatever we want. For clinical we wear our ugly white uniform :barf01:. For clinical preperation we wear professional dress clothes. But trust me, your school will cover all of this....probably at length .

6. Do you know your 'stuff'?!!!

   Valasca replied to sunkissed75's topic in General Students

   Awesome! I am still in nursing school myself but I can tell you that it is even more thrilling when what you are learning starts to "meld" together and you can see that you are thinking critically. That is really exciting and builds confidence to b...

7. is nursing theory important to nursing practice?

   Valasca replied to precious nikz's topic in Student Assist

   So are you asking for ways that nursing theory is not important? Is that what you mean by "the negative side"? Firstly, nursing theory is very important and provides you with the foundation upon which you will build your nursing knowledge and cultiva...

8. please i'm begging for your help with dosage calculations im desperate

   Valasca replied to scaredstudent05's topic in Student Assist

   I have always hated math. For some reason it just never makes any sense to me. I feel your frustration. I cannot do dosage calc using deminsonal analysis....it just doesn't make sense in my brain. I am like you, I never know how to set up the pro...

9. Your observations

   Valasca replied to illuminiti's topic in Student Assist

   Just curious why you are asking this question???? ....The students that I have seen struggle and/or fail seem to have one thing in common, they do not study or they study very little. However, the reason why they don't study/study very little has man...

10. You know you're in nursing school when....

    Valasca replied to Valasca's topic in General Students

    To expand on what Blove86 said: You know you're in nursing school when you carry flash cards with you in your purse & pull them out while waiting in the drive thru, stop and go traffic, for an oil change, for your next class to start, your doctor...

11. You know you're in nursing school when....

    Valasca posted a topic in General Students

    I'm sure this has been done before but I figured I'd do it anyway! You know you're in nursing school when...... Your mind is thinking about so many different things that you actually have to stop and make sure you have on all of your clothes before y...

12. Need help with nursing diagnoses

    Valasca replied to ManderRN's topic in Student Assist

    I would add Imparied gas exchange r/t pneumonia

13. Thinking about nursing school but I'm scared!!!! Need advice...

    Valasca replied to cpo_one's topic in General Students

    There is absolutely no doubt in my mind that you can do "it", whatever "it" may be. It sounds like you are kicking around a few different ideas. My advice would be to contact your local hospital and find out about the possibility of shadowing a nur...

14. Students that "float" by in college

    Valasca replied to gelousstudent's topic in General Students

    I would like to expand on this by adding that I find it annoying when I hear students brag about getting the minimum grade on a test or in a class, or about how they didn't study for a test and still passed. I think that students that cheat and thos...

15. How do I manage all of this reading????

    Valasca posted a topic in General Students

    Hi all! So I recently started an ADN program and I am like "whoa!". There is so much reading to do! I have been trying to keep pace but I am running into a problem that I do not know how to manuver around. My wee little brain cannot retain the ma...